End of all things school... for now...

[IWilKikU]

Well, I've started a count down, so if anyone wants to share their educational countdowns as well...

Last night 8:00 PM, started reading for my last essay (pulled a massive last minute job). Started actually writing at 4:30 AM. Finished at 11:00 AM. Handed it in 1 hour early.

Now I'm in revision week. No classes, but next week is exams. I have one Monday 8:30AM, Tuesday 8:30 AM, and Wednesday 2:00 PM. Then I'm done. I go back to the US on May 17.

[crisaor]

Holydays at this time of the year?
*Drools on the keyboard*
Such a great idea... I'm definitely in the wrong hemisphere.

[verybaddmom]

YAY...Im with you Kik, in fact im a little ahead of you: i finished all of my coursework last week, the extension essay has been turned in and marked, all my finals have been written and my final grades are posted....
I am done till september; this is my first summer off since 2000, i am afraid that i wont know what to do with myself, but since i am in BC, the land of "green" and beaches, perhaps i will find some form of entertainment....

[den]

Good luck with your exams kik!

And yeah Mom I'm sure you'll find something to do there! :p Vancouver is soooo beautiful in the spring and especially in summer, I may be going there in June.

[simon]

I been outta there for a week, done with classes, done with finals, searching for a job, wish I was back taking classes, not stuck in the states.

[amuse]

ooh lala, seems spring fever has struck, job fever, everything. good luck kik, and enjoy summer reading (foucault for fun???, good for you) vbm, never been to canada but hear the most wonderful things about it from people who have so have a wonderful time on vacation and if vancouver please add to the ear candy - ooh, can you post pics please?!, and simon, good luck with the job search, i'm won't be out for a few weeks yet, but have started looking now, need to cram summer with workwork and more work. so much for stepford-ism!

[simon]

Hey mom, the beach is the place to be. Every weekend I always hung out at the beaches. Where are you going to be in BC?

[verybaddmom]

actually the first bit of summer here i am going to be in the East Kootenays. then in July i am moving to Calgary. I was born in Vancouver, but grew up in the Okanagan Valley, Kelowna to be exact. anyone heard of it?
Den, if you end up in Vancouver, be sure to enjoy the VanDuesen Gardens if you can, and Granville island is way cool. also Gastown...the list goes on!

[simon]

I am going to Calgary too this summer to visit a friend during Stampede, and I'll be able to enter pubs!

[verybaddmom]

yay...good for you Simon. I might just see you there. my son insists that we visit the gosh darned stampede, so the stampede we will visit. (the first day is free, after that, its amputations at the gate, you get to pick the arm or leg!)

[simon]

First day free! I don't think I can afford anything but the first day then, what I will really be doing is camping and learning to throw knives.

[verybaddmom]

learning to throw knives? how cool is that....
well, i know all about the free first day, cause that is all i can afford too, especially after having to move the week or so before. but i heard that the lineups are insane the first day (cant imagine why) but i guess that's the price you pay, time or money. at this point, i'll pay the time.
anyhow, if i dont see you in the lineup at the stampede, i'm sure that you'll be at "shakespeare in the park" no? that runs all of July and some of August i believe. i cant wait...two of my favorite things....flowers and shakespeare. i'll pack some food and then it's (almost) ALL of my favorite things! wahooo!

[simon]

I'm there!

[Koa]

Lessons till 28th May.
Exams from mid-June more or less till 6th July or 14th July.
(imagine how nice this all is...last year in that period the average temperature was 30 degrees....real fun).
August or September heading to Hungary, apparently.


* if someone is curious, my schedule should be (we have 2 possible dates when to take every exam):
last week of may: computer test of Russian
IF I pass it:
9th June written test, 15th or 18th (they haven't decided yet, the lazy bums!!! last session these tests dates came out one week before the actual exams...) oral test. [edit: turns out it's on the 16th]
17th June Russian Literature
6th July English Literature, great to have 2 weeks cos I havent been working on it much during the semester and I'll need plenty of time!
14th July Slavic Philology, unless I manage to do it in the next weeks while lessons are still going on (cos some teachers allow to do exams in advance, especially those who have very few people at their course...and I have a feeling this teacher wants us to do that and he might be on holiday on mid-july ;) But there's no way I'm doing it on 15th June so the only solution is now!)

[IWilKikU]

Wow Koa, thats a long time from now. I think I would hang myself. :(

[Stanislaw]

Yay IB exam week, 3:30 hour long tests, I love school, I think I am going to cry.:(

[imthefoolonthehill]

I hate school. I think I'm going to cry.

but... one of the fun things we get to do for Physics... is build a go-cart to race the chemistry class

[Stanislaw]

That is cool, our cool activity is going to the holocost symposium at our local university. It is going to be very depressing.

[simon]

Too much leaking of fluids around here.

[IWilKikU]

Fool, if you're anything like me you'll hate highschool and love uni.

[subterranean]

Im not in school anymore, I'm in a real world now working my *** off for cash..And I really miss my college years. i wish I could be a student all my life. I tell you college kids around here..enjoy all those assignments, exams, papers, essays..somehow you'll miss them one day

[subterranean]

O gee Admin...can u allow it for this one time...

[rocksea]

i always loved the school days, never wanted to grow up,, like peter pan..

http://in.geocities.com/roxymathew/poems/school.htm

now at phd.. i take it like school though.. ya i have to submit some report befor may 20.

[Koa]

Originally posted by IWilKikU
Wow Koa, thats a long time from now. I think I would hang myself. :(

Bah I got used to it ;) One thing I hate is that our schoolyear doesnt have half terms and such (well now some schools have some little holidays in the middle, but when i was at school it was only 2 weeks at xmas and 5 days at easter), cos otherwise school would last too long in the summer (school's usually over towards the 10th June)...so why the hell final school exams and university exam take place in June/July? Only schoolkids suffer from heat maybe???
Lol when i finished high school, with my luck I was the last one to do the oral exam and it was on the 11th July... That wasn't fun, most people were on holiday already...

Anyway, I'd really be a student all my life... High school sucked in the sense we had pressure everyday and I had to do subjects I didnt like (unlike the UK, and maybe US to, we have to do ALL subjects till the end, which means for example that in a languages school I had tons of maths and sciences which I hated), but it was GREAT fun... University here is only fun, you work hard only during the exam sessions, which last 1, maybe 2 months...the rest of the time it's not hard work :D (and I could go on for ages about how I think the Uni system here is ridicolous, but I won't bore you ;) ...and anyway I'm enjoying it :D)

[IWilKikU]

Yeah, in the US we had to take all subjects too. I nearly failed out of high school because of that. Stupid Chemistry :mad:. Anyways, my school actually IS alot of work, but it keeps me going. I love having goals and things that I'm working towards. When I was at home working full time, the only thing I had to look forward to was lighting up a joint when I got home from Denny's. School gives me direction. I need that. I'm going to stay in school until they won't let me anymore. Like Van Wilder. hehe :D

[emily655321]

My high school did something kind of neat. I don't know if it's just the common thing to do, but we had four classes per semester. So you could space it out, when you signed up for your schedule; science, english, art, gym first semester; math, chorus, sociology, theatre second semester. It was great to have a break, and if you finished up your requirements early, you got to take just neat classes you wanted. Like the last semester of senior year I had chemistry (blech), jewelry-making, AP english, and a free period I used for art studio time.

[IWilKikU]

Jewelry-making?????
:confused:

[emily655321]

:D :D :D

All things considered, it was a pretty neat school. There was also American Cinema and Literature of the Fantastic, taught by the same guy, and all we did was watch movies. :D

[imthefoolonthehill]

Iwilkiku... well... so far I meet half the criteria for being like you... I hate high school.

[emily655321]

Kik, I didn't see you Sunday I don't think, (or maybe I just forgot), but I hope your finals went well. Good luck on the rest of them!

[IWilKikU]

Thanks. I had to take a few days off and study for my exams. I did really well on the first two (Pentateuch, and Fine Arts). I've just got one more on poetry analysis and Antigone tomarow at 3:00 PM, and then I'm DONE! Yay!

[emily655321]

Oh, those will be a sinch. :D I love poetry analysis -- it's the easiest A ever; basically just fill-in-the-blanks, but all the writing looks impressive. LoL.

[IWilKikU]

*groan* I HATE poetry analysis! Yeachkt! It's my LEAST favorite part of literature. I have searched far and wide for a poet that I like, but all I can come up with are a few poems here and there.

[emily655321]

I did "Faustine" by Algernon Charles Swinburne for my 11th grade poetry project. (Actually, just posted it a couple days ago on the "best loved poems" thread.) LOTS of musical devices, LOTS of metaphor, LOTS of obscure Classical allusion. It's a gold mine. (And it's dirty ;)) I haven't read much of his other stuff, but he was basically a Romantic born too late.

Any of the Romantics I would choose, because the poems are so long and there's so much Classical stuff stuck in that needs explanation. Byron, Coleridge, Shelley...well, Shelley kind of sucks... but you know what I mean.

[IWilKikU]

Ungh! I think that was your boringest post EVER!!! Stupid poetry :mad:!

[emily655321]

ROFLMAO :D

[Koa]

Originally posted by IWilKikU
Thanks. I had to take a few days off and study for my exams. I did really well on the first two (Pentateuch, and Fine Arts). I've just got one more on poetry analysis and Antigone tomarow at 3:00 PM, and then I'm DONE! Yay!

Pentateuch??? Is that a subject??? :eek: :confused:

I love to analyse poetry when the teacher is good...cos by myself I never can analyse, I just read and things pass over my head :(

Oh infact I have never seen Kik post in the poetry sections... have a look at us good poets when you have time, won't you? ;););)

[kilted exile]

I finished college on the 19th of April - burned all my project management notes the day after :) - I started my course required 8mth work term last monday at a southern ontario conservation area (Terra Cotta), no summer break this year :mad:.

[emily655321]

Aw that sucks. Congrats, though! :D

[verybaddmom]

simon...are you still planning on being in calgary during stampede? it starts on friday!
see ya there?

[simon]

Oh yeah I'll be there, my plane leaves 12:00 on sunday afternoon, the 11th, and I'll be there till the 18th. Would it be out of character to say I am so excited that I am emitting girly giggles of delight and smiles so wide my face is cracking under the pressure? You'll see me there I'll be the silent one following a loud redhead around. Hehe!

[verybaddmom]

yay...simon. enjoy. see ya there!

[verybaddmom]

oh and btw..did you know that you can eat free breakfast every morning from July 9th to 19th? there are pancake breakfasts every single day. i dont have to cook!
all of a sudden i am lovin cowboys!

EDIT: here are some links to check out, in case you havent already

http://www.stampedebreakfasts.com/listingsearch.php?sortby=date&
http://calgarystampede.com/
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/conservatory/sitp/index.htm

[emily655321]

Ooh Shakespeare in the park! Are you gonna go? Shrew or Julius Caesar?

[verybaddmom]

um.....both!

[Monica]

Holiday for me at last!!! :) Almost 3 months without school. Amazing.

[crisaor]

Me too. 3 weeks of liberation. Wheeee. :banana:

Finally, I got to use that damned thing. ;)

[subterranean]

Well...i got nothing to count anymore....

good luck Mike...

where have u been anywayz..

Cheers